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Lipstick-Shaped Cigarette Lighter
Imagine the hilarity when your lady-love accidentally scorches her kisser! She'll be "smoking hot" then!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 18, 2016 -
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Category: Cosmetics, Stupid and/or Dangerous Products, Face and Facial Expressions, Pain, Self-inflicted and Otherwise
Edible Nail Polish
KFC Hong Kong has announced that it's created edible nail polish. It will come in two flavors, Original and Hot & Spicy. The company says, "To use, consumers simply apply and dry like regular nail polish, and then lick—again and again and again."Obviously a marketing gimmick, but seems that they really are going to produce some of this stuff.
More info: adweek.com
Posted By: Alex - Mon May 09, 2016 -
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Category: Cosmetics, Food, Advertising
Snail Cream
You no longer need to let snails crawl across your face to stay looking young. Because Charmzone is now selling Snail Wrinkle Recover Cream (available from Amazon for $59.99 a jar)
, which it claims is the first cream formulated with concentrated filtrate of snail mucus. Just smear the snail mucus all over your face and enjoy the glow of youth. [via styleite.com]
Posted By: Alex - Mon Apr 14, 2014 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Cosmetics
Anime Makeup
Never too early to start thinking about your Halloween look!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 24, 2012 -
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Category: Cosmetics, Costumes and Masks, Comics, Asia
The Eyelash is the Window of the Soul
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Who ever knew that a false eyelash could reveal so much about the wearer?
From McCall's for April 1969.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 30, 2011 -
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Category: Body, Cosmetics, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1960s, Women
Official Boy Scout Lip Rouge?
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Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri May 27, 2011 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Clubs, Fraternities and Other Self-selecting Organizations, Cosmetics, 1940s
Weird Science - I Sing The Body Eccentric
Social pressure also crops up in explaining another finding this week, this one by Meridith Young of McMaster University in Ontario, that what single women eat depends a lot on whom they are eating with. After covertly monitoring the canteen behaviour of 470 undergraduates, Young found that women significantly lowered their calorie intake when sat with men compared with all women groups. Moreover, the more men a woman sat with, the less on average she consumed. In the journal Appetite, she puts the discrepancy down to women unconsciously advertising themselves to men, adding "the salad leaves are meant to say, I'm pretty, I'm attractive, I take care of myself" (Guardian).
Of course, we all know what men really like in a woman; that she not appear too powerful. Or so says a study by Brian Meier and Sarah Dionne of Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. In the study, eighty 19 year-olds were asked to rate the attractiveness of a number of images presented in random order, some of which would be repeated. In fact the subjects saw each image twice, once near the top of the screen and once low down. The researchers found that men rated women 1.8% more attractive when observed near the bottom, and women found men 1.5% better looking when higher up. They suggest that their findings might explain why men are taller than their women partners more frequently than would be expected by chance (Times of India).
As to what women really like in men, perhaps not being British should be somewhere on the list. After champagne controversially lost out to an English wine earlier this week, French scientists have hit back at British research that concluded that the mythical “G-spot” did not exist. “Of course it exists,” say French gynaecologists, “you just can’t find it!” The original study by King’s College in London looked at over 900 pairs of identical or non-identical twins in the expectation that the identical siblings should both report having a G-spot more frequently than the others, they did not. The French however claim their cross-channel colleagues have got the wrong end of the speculum, “It is not a question of genetics but of use," said one (Telegraph).
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Posted By: Dumbfounded - Wed Feb 03, 2010 -
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Category: Babies, Cosmetics, Exercise and Fitness, Politics, Science, Anthropology, Experiments, Psychology, Sexuality, Divorce, Obesity
Life Imitates Art
Here are two commercials to watch. I believe that you will see a startling similarity emerge that will shake you to the core (or maybe just halfway to the core).So far, so good. It's your basic ad for cosmetics, showing a heavily airbrushed woman who looks somewhat like an android (gynoid?), poncing around in an empty, black, out-of-focus room, interspersed with product shots against a stark white background. (I'm always a little saddened when the real product doesn't create lines of light in contour around my wife's face.) I don't know to much about the product's specific properties.
What I know for sure is that it bares a startling similarity to a fictional product I have seen before.
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Posted By: kingmonkey - Tue May 05, 2009 -
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Category: Armageddon and Apocalypses, Body Modifications, Cannibalism, Cosmetics, Movies, Advertising
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